Archive through March 20, 2014

[hydroharry]

Dennis - I did the Google search for U-tube Manometer and Hydrometer, and I was RIGHT!!!! They both use a fluid. If you did't yet you might want to do a Google search for Womanmeter. It is a measuring device.

 

[kshultz]

Joel,
As promised just a day late. I would strongly suggest that you have a creeper gear on your 7hp. Cub Cadet.

And yes I can till as deep as I want with it, even if it's not already plowed.

 

[jbaker]

Shultzie, that is a very nice 70, I am guessing that that eyelet bolted on the side is for the snow thrower?

I don't have any NFs

 

[bjamison]

Shultzie - that's a fine looking 70. Kind of makes me wonder why IH ever needed to upgrade with newer models...

Jeff B - that's not an eyelet bolted to the side of the tractor, that's Kraig's dipstick and where it landed when it blew out while he was throwing snow...

 

[jgoodine]

Craig and Luther, tks for info, I do have a Plow which I have not used yet, but I definitely got no problem plowing it before tilling it.

Shultzie that is a sweet

tks so much for pics, really like your tire combo, I do not have a creeper gear YET!!!

 

[kostendorf]

I sand blasted the cast iron lower grill housing I bought today and was kind of surprised that this one was not sanded on or prepped in any way before it got painted at the factory. aside of grind marks where they poured the metal in the mold it was not touched. IH just knocked it out of the mold ground off the tits and painted it. As nice as all the tractors look on here, does everyone spend hours and hours sanding their cast iron parts smooth before they repaint or leave them rough? I guess I'm used to looking at the smooth aluminum cast grill housing. Its definitely not going to match the upper grill.

 

[digger]

Keith O.

 

[dschwandt]

I usually plow in the fall, them till in the spring. Makes for a great seed bed, and I only till enough area to plant what I am at the time.

 

[kostendorf]

Hey, I resemble that picture!!! And its gonna be a bit rough.

 

[jclazar]

Man, I bought my first ever copy of Farm Show magazine titled: Look What They're Doing With Garden Tractors , and lo and behold, on page 9 is a segment titled: Cub Cadets Plow Up 46 Acres from the Rockford, Iowa gathering in 2004! That must have been a great event attend,.... wholly smokes!

Have a great IH Cub Cadet day fellas!

 

[dfrisk]

HARRY - I already know what a Manometer amd a hydrometer are, and if you think they're both even remotely similar because they share
using fluid, then you didn't read much about either of them. That would be like saying an airplane and a flag are the "same". Guess my science background is coming out.

And I REALLY REALLY could care less what a womanmeter is. You were trying to be "Smart" when you first said the word, Now your "Informed".

JOHN L. - Yes, think the '04 PD @ Travis's in Rockfard, IA was the first one I went to there.

KIETH O. - The actual grinding of small parting lines & witness points adds NO value to a casting, just wasted time & expense. Far as trying to polish up an iron casting to make it "Pretty", No, I would never do that, let it look like the casting it really is. I've seen tractors literally "RUINED" by over-finishing, smoothing/filling castings, polishing & chroming bolts, etc. My Buddy & I looked at an off-topic big trsctor for almost an hour that had been "over-detailed", mostly to listen to how boastful and stupid the owner was about how much extra time & money He spent doing it "right".

 

[kmcconaughey]

John L., I think who ever wrote the article got the year wrong. The first plow day in Iowa was a fall plow day which we referred to as "PD V6.0 Iowa Field Of Dreams" which was near Rockford, IA on October 18th, 2003. There was a Spring Plow Day in 2004. I'm not sure where that one was but it was a smaller scale one. Then on October 3rd, 2004 Steve Blunier and family hosted PD V8.0 but that was in Illinois. The next plow day in Iowa was PD V9.0 on April 9th, 2005 which was again on the same property near Rockford, IA. The photo Charlie posted the other day with the looong lineup of garden tractors was taken at PD11 in Iowa on April 10th, 2006 again at the same property near Rockford, IA. Not sure which plow day the article is referring to.

If I could see some photos of it I could most likely say for sure.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Denny, I do believe the first Iowa Plow Day you attended was Plow Day 9 in 2005.

 

[kostendorf]

Thanks Dennis, for the incite on cast iron parts. It just seems odd to me that as expensive as these machines were they may have sold more with a little more body work on all the sharp edges and 60 grit surface finish. I will leave as is and use some good paint.

 

[hydroharry]

Dennis - I was obviously throwing out some bs here - but the bigger point is that compression testing on these Kohler K engine really doesn't tell you anything useful if you suspect or have a problem. If it did I think we'd have thousands of posts talking about what everyones compression was, and what they did because of it. And by the way, I'm sorta with ya on the cast iron stuff.

Keith O - don't tell anyone but I always brush painted the cast iron parts. If you do it under the right conditions (no sunshine, around 70 degrees, and reasonable humidity) and find the right type brush, the paint will basically self level. Because of the somewhat rough casting surface you get virtually no brush marks that don't smooth out on their own. It takes some trial and error (or practice). I never hung these parts either and sometimes you do get some drips on the undersides which you'll have to "dab and smooth". Works well on the wheel weights to, but you have to do one side at a time.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Harry, why would you remove the paint drips? IH never did...

 

[kmcconaughey]

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[aaytay]

"I was obviously throwing out some bs here..."

I think Harry may have found a new signature-line for himself.

 

[kmcconaughey]

 

[hydroharry]

Kraig - Oh Great One Keeper of the Photos -
because many of us want these units to be better than new.

Hydro Harry